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Practical guidance for production AI programs

These articles mirror how we scope work with clients: explicit tradeoffs, operational metrics, and governance—not hype cycles. New posts ship on a lightweight cadence as we publish internal playbooks in sanitized form.

FeaturedMay 2026 · 8 min

How to build RAG applications that actually work

Chunking, reranking, and evaluation loops that keep answers grounded when documents are messy—without boiling the ocean on day one.

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Shorter reads on integration patterns, failure modes, and how we run delivery.

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Avoiding the top LLM integration mistakes in production cutovers

Caching, policy layers, streaming pitfalls, and cost controls we see when teams move from prototype to owned SLAs.

Apr 2026 · 6 min read

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